General Search Suggestions

[TheGrandVizier]

Suggestions from all DBs including Persons.

As the user is typing a search term, provide a list of suggestions that begin with what the user is typing.

Must suggest items of all types that are ours:

• Family names
• Places
• Luminaries
• Images
• Persons
• Compendium
• Stories
• Video
• Music

It should provide up to 5 suggestions as "Starts with".
If there is an exact match, suggest the exact match.

Future-proofing (bonus points): Add support for 5 items as "Sounds like".

[TheGrandVizier]

Invision link

https://projects.invisionapp.com/d/main#/console/904587/206067616/preview

^ not latest

[TheGrandVizier]

backend Beit-Hatfutsot/dbs-back#118

[OriHoch]

this issue will deal with showing whatever the backend returns

from the frontend side - all this issue cares about is sending a (partial) search term and getting back a list of suggestions, c'est tout

this means that frontend can start development without waiting for backend - the interface itself is very simple, so will be easy to change the specifics of it later

[TheGrandVizier]

This is the correct invision link

[OriHoch]

comment from @Netush (moved from PR #358)

The Search Suggestion Should look like this:
English:
https://projects.invisionapp.com/d/main#/console/904587/206067616/preview
Hebrew:
https://projects.invisionapp.com/d/main#/console/904587/206067617/preview

Articles include Places, Family Names & Compendium Databases
People include Family Trees, Luminaries & Stories Databases
Media include Images, Videos & Music Databases

[OriHoch]

thanks @Netush

some things are not clear to me (possibly to be answered by @Inna-r / @TheGrandVizier) -

• currently the backend returns 5 results for each collection, out of the following collections: personalities, places, persons, movies, photoUnits, familyNames
• in the mapping of types to collection in @Netush comment above, I didn't see a reference to all the above collections (at least not by the names I am familiar with)
• also, I see some mapping to collections which we don't have yet
• what's the logic of combining the results? for example, say we have results that return 5 places, 5 family names and 5 compendiums - all these collections should be displayed under articles - how will they be merged? also, I guess it won't look good to show 15 items, so the list will need to be truncated - how?
• there could still be a scenario where results from different collections will have the same title under the same type (e.g. under Articles - have a place called Paris and a compendium article called Paris) - are we 100% sure there aren't and won't be situations like this? or we don't care?

this is just some thoughts not clear to me, if it's clear to you (e.g. to @Inna-r , @TheGrandVizier and @Netush) - that's fine with me.. you don't need to clarify it

[Netush]

Some clarification:
Articles include Places & Family Names Databases (in the future also Compendium)
People include Family Trees & Luminaries Databases (in the future also Stories)
Media include Images & Videos Databases (in the future also Music)

The maximum suggestion for each categories (Articles, People & Media) should be six ,the return suggest for each sub-Category should be equal, the sorting should be by relevancy.

[Netush]

About the scenario that it can be suggestion with the same title
Same title under different categories is fine but under one category no - there shouldn't be the same title

[OriHoch]

thanks @Netush - in case there are 2 titles under same category - how do we decide which one to show?

[Netush]

@OriHoch It doesn't really matter - because after the user choose a suggestion it goes to general search results and there will be all results

[Inna-r]

@TheGrandVizier wizard search and general search share the same service that brings suggestions. check both search boxes please